Shade Gardening: Your woodland shade favorites, 1 by Weerobin

Weerobin wrote:
Ky, I spent the better part of two summers clearing away all the choking honeysuckle from my wooded hillside yard.
It's 2 acres. I pulled by the roots those that I could, others I just cut to the ground.
The stumps resprout avidly, but if you keep snapping off the sprouts it will eventually give up the ghost.
I've been able to keep the yard pretty clear of the stuff ever since, though I'm constantly pulling seedlings.
But what I didn't realize was that all the native wildflowers being choked by the honeysuckle jungle are still laying dormant, waiting for an opportunity to spring to life.
Here is a picture of wild phlox in the cleared area the very next summer.
I didn't plant any of it!
There are also native trilliums, mayapples, bloodroot, geraneums, jack-in-the-pulpit, solomon seal...